I had a glass from a bottle of the most recent batch of Lucid.

It smelled harsh.
It tasted harsh.

More water didn't help.

Anyone else notice a difference in the new batch vs. the first?
Maybe Cros had it right. Lucid does suck.

Maybe?

I wouldn't notice, onacuz I only let myself be burned once.

I enjoyed my first 3 bottles.

The new one kinda sux.

I sent away two of my first/last three bottles.

The one I kept failed to get the road tar off from under my truck, so I dropped it of at the hazmat center.

I’m amazed that as bad as Rancid™ is, Ted still manages to fuck up the quality control part.

Mebbe Veridian decided to cut costs on the second batch.

I hear brake fluid makes grate absinthe... and it stays green in the sun.

Maybe Ted is a bigger whore than Jack ever said he was.

Nah.
He's arrogant,
But he's not so bad.
I'd make shitty absinthe for them rich NY lawyers too. Fuckem.


I'd love to get hammered with you, Liver and Ted. It might actually be fun.

See what T-Bone
thinks of the idea.

I'd scrounge a trip
to France for that
lil' xin dig.

I gots me some
YouRowPeeOns
I want to see.

Yeah, me too.

Anytime guyz.
You're WellCum.

You're not on the list.

He's on mine.

Not mine.

Thanks guys.
Appreciated.

I recently got a bottle of the newer batch and thought it was harsh too. I couldn't seem to get the water ratio right. At 2.5:1 it was too alcoholic all the way to 3.5:1, and then it tasted too thin past 3.5:1. So I poured a glass from the 60ml I had left from the first batch and realized that the 1st batch and 2nd batch are surprisingly similar. I think the main problem with Lucid is that it probably uses cheaper herbs than Jade and probably also uses a different process/colouration, and so the result is, not surprisingly, average.

I think when I taste a new absinthe for the first time I tend to like it better than subsequent tastings, probably because the first glass tastes "different" than what I'm used to. I still don't think it "sucks" or is "rancid", but it's nothing special. But maybe it is to somebody who is relatively new to absinthe.

Why in the hell would ANYONE buy this crap????

The question is why they would buy it again. I found it weak and mediocre and am seeing how it ages.

Well, that's you.

"ANYONE" has 3 options for Absinthe:
1. Buy expensive absinthe from overseas and spend even more than the cost of the bottle on shipping.
2. Save money and buy the only Absinthe you can buy in the US, and get an absinthe that is lower quality than some of the pricey overseas stuff, but is at least distilled and superiour to lesser distilled brands like F. Guy and Pernot.
3. Break the law and make it yourself.

For people who are tired of #1 and don't want to do #3 or can't do #3 or can do #3 but don't do it well, then their only option is #2, which is one more option than they had 5 months ago. If Lucid does well, then hopefully that will create incentive on the part of other foreign (and hopefully local) distillers to make #2 a better option than it currently is.

Arak is a better option.

Can't argue with that. It's a better option at 1/5th the price, though it isn't absinthe. But good Arak is better than so-so Absinthe.

Thank you for my new cross forum sig.

Which means option #4: make your own arak.

Arak's not green. I only drink green booze. Should I mix it wit' absente? Is that "Arak Refined"? ;)

Edited for clarity of intended wittiness, not further display of presumed Dumass™ 'ness.

No, that's "Arak Ruined".

Indeed™!

Was anyone in doubt about Dweeble?

Hey Feecal, you could always add green dye and print your own Arak Duplais labels.

That one is at least named so, so:

http://www.missionliquor.com/Store/Qstore/...amp;PROD=000678

Talking of real LuXit™ expierience(sic):

https://www.absinth24.net/absinth_expierien...770e6a8712c426b

I wish he did die.

Sure after second half he will. Wonderin' when he as an "expierienced dude" appears on any of the fora.

There's the biggest US market.
Idiot college kids doing shots and trippin crazy ballz™.

Butt he only did 4-1/2 shots!

That Lucid must be some killer xit!!


I need to gets me some right away!!!

You're missing out on a lot of good stuff. Thank you, it just leaves more the for rest of us.

...

Hitting the bottle early?

Your failure in this was successful...

'Prezactly, so why wood one ever buy extremely overpriced sub-mediocre booze just cuz Ned calls it "Absinthe"? Doesn't make cents....

Shitty littleness
suits the PeePuddle
betterer.

Shabba has not sent anything yet? Be patient. He is the person you can rely on.

testify.

As in Advil? Yes.

You can't handle the truth.

Little minds need to whine.

He handled it perfectly.

Are you one of the cool kids yet? Cuz they must've lowered their standards then. If I'm not witty enough, then neither are you pal. So shut up and let the professionals do the bantering.

I'm a non-standard
that's why they let me in.

Believe me, he taint kewell, neither...